Oranges under fire after Amalia’s birthday party with ‘many guests’

Willem-Alexander has told Prime Minister Mark Rutte that it was not good, on second thought, to organize this The Telegraph asked questions about it. Amalia’s birthday party was celebrated on Saturday in the garden behind Huis ten Bosch palace. In order to protect the guests from the rain, two canopies are said to have been erected against the house in the garden.

According to the Government Information Service, this was organized at the last minute, after earlier plans about festivities in the palace were cancelled. The newspaper speaks of about a hundred guests, the RVD keeps it at 21 invitations for people who did not all come. This floutes the corona rules: even during Amalia’s birthday, the advice was to receive a maximum of four guests per day.

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‘Amalia turned 18 last week. This is an important moment in her life. (…) All guests have been asked to take a test. All were vaccinated. The basic principle was also that an appropriate distance was observed,” Prime Minister Rutte said in a letter to the chairman of the House of Representatives.

“The family was convinced with this meeting outside and with the precautions taken to deal with the corona advice in a responsible way. The king informed me that, on reflection, it was not good to organize this. I think that’s a sensible response.’

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According to research, confidence in the royal family reached a low point this year after the royal family went on holiday to Greece in October 2020 despite the limited travel advice. Willem-Alexander then went through the dust in a video in which he apologized:

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